PEW: The Battle Between The Rich And Poor In America Is Getting Fiercehttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-battle-between-the-rich-and-poor-in-america-is-only-getting-fiercer-2012-1/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 09 Dec 2016 09:31:26 -0500Mandi Woodruffhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f11b3b0eab8ead028000012Isabel ZoquierSat, 14 Jan 2012 11:56:16 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f11b3b0eab8ead028000012
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Rich Jewish banksters causing financial problems?
Not the first time.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f106a4f6bb3f7866d000007EdemFri, 13 Jan 2012 12:30:55 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f106a4f6bb3f7866d000007
What a textbook straw man argument. If it's raining, and the news forecast calls for storms, and people are talking about how bad the weather is, blaming the news for hyping bad weather does not change the fact that it is ACTUALLY RAINING.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f104f11ecad048c1900001dMHRobsonFri, 13 Jan 2012 10:34:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f104f11ecad048c1900001d
Actually, the media hype about the tension between the rich and poor is coming to a head, and we're all at our breaking point.
Anyone who actually read this poll would know that it is not what the conclusions really state. They are dwelling on the response to one question in the poll, but OF COURSE people are more aware of a gap because the media has been force feeding us coverage of OWS and any poll that remotely, in some contorted way, supports their possition!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f104d7569bedd615f000033Class WarfareFri, 13 Jan 2012 10:27:49 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f104d7569bedd615f000033
Funny how our Democrat President and Majority controlled Congress voted to bialout the rich, print trillions in fait money to prop up Wall Street, while main street ( private )middle class jobs are destroyed
Class warfare creation at its finest.
Follow the donation money to see who our socialist wealth redistribution President really represdents
<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/bundlers.php?id=N00009638" target="_blank">http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/bundlers.php?id=N00009638</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f104c3a69bedd375800005dbwFri, 13 Jan 2012 10:22:34 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f104c3a69bedd375800005d
Read history !
Hitler controlled the corporations ( not the other way around ).
The corporations got on the NAZI ( NAtional Socialist German Workers Party ) bandwagon to not be left behind.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f10337e69bedd942700002aCorporateToolFri, 13 Jan 2012 08:37:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f10337e69bedd942700002a
Silicon Valley and other tech start-ups are usually funded early on by sweat equity, as in the owners and initial employees working for free or cheap in exchange for stock and the chance to create something. VCs - which are private individuals sometimes acting alone and other times in investment groups - provide seed capital and early growth capital to help expand the business after the founders have built something and sold the investors. VCs are usually folks who made their money by selling start-ups which they started with sweat equity.
Banks and Wall Street are rarely ever involved in startups until certain companies decide to go for the big bucks by selling shares privately or going publicly. Then you will sometimes see schmucks like Old Man Sacks because Wall Street is the quick and easy way to gain billions when you are a big name (like Facebook). Banks are rarely ever involved with tech start-ups except as a place where the founders make deposits then used to make payroll.
Start-ups like HP, Apple and Microsoft preceded the so-called era of innovation on Wall Street and the repeal of Sarbanes Oxley.
What would help start-ups more then banks and financiers being allowed to get richer and richer would be to have national health insurance. Its the fear of losing or not being able to get or afford insurance that keeps many people working in corporations instead of starting or joining start-ups.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fd4a56bb3f79b67000002Look in the mirrorFri, 13 Jan 2012 01:52:21 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fd4a56bb3f79b67000002
You clearly don't get it. The marked thumb-vote discrepancy between your comment and Storm's gives me hope that people are capable of rational thought. More evidence needed...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fc059eab8ea2e7700001egetaclueFri, 13 Jan 2012 00:25:45 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fc059eab8ea2e7700001e
who do you think makes up the FED you knuckle dragger ?
From there website....
Member Banks
Approximately 38 percent of the 8,039 commercial banks in the United States are members of the Federal Reserve System. National banks must be membershttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fbf7969bedd7b3200001cOwnedFri, 13 Jan 2012 00:22:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fbf7969bedd7b3200001c
can't be 100% sure that there is no valid point here ?
Well, I am 100% sure that there is a double negative.
Butthole.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fbb036bb3f76f3b000022Snake PliskinFri, 13 Jan 2012 00:02:59 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fbb036bb3f76f3b000022
This should cheer you up Greggy-bear
"Occupy movement calls for worldwide general strike on May Day"
<a href="http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Rights-Justice/2012/01/12/Strike_on_May_Day/" target="_blank">http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Rights-Justice/2012/01/12/Strike_on_May_Day/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fb64c6bb3f76225000025mweberThu, 12 Jan 2012 23:42:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fb64c6bb3f76225000025
Nicely said. To wrong ears, though.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fb4fc69bedd8928000007confusedThu, 12 Jan 2012 23:37:16 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fb4fc69bedd8928000007
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1. England and many other countries are more stratified than the USA.
2. The USA has millions of educated people who are working entry level jobs in service industries. This is work that needs to be done.
3. We have millions of educated people working for government, big banks, and insurance companies. In spite of the fact that they are parasites, they are paid more than the people in service industries.
The pyramid is getting so top heavy that it is starting to collapse into a more normal shape.
What is unfortunate is that so few at the top get away with taking so much from the many at the bottom who are suffering.
I have to go check my possum casserole.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fab8a6bb3f77413000040Bill FrankThu, 12 Jan 2012 22:56:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fab8a6bb3f77413000040
It will be a VERY interesting spring/summer. We will reach critical mass.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fa5b76bb3f7770f00002cWowThu, 12 Jan 2012 22:32:07 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0fa5b76bb3f7770f00002c
You are what we call trash. Arrogant, smug, trash. You are no Indie, you are liberal trash. Stop parading around claims otherwise, Mr. Trash.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f70296bb3f7b13100002dLazy Whiny Wall Street ProtesterThu, 12 Jan 2012 18:43:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f70296bb3f7b13100002d
let the poor losers get a job and work harder,.,,,,,screw them!! Success Envy !!!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f697d6bb3f7a531000009ReginaldThu, 12 Jan 2012 18:15:09 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f697d6bb3f7a531000009
The Pepper Spray industry had their best year ever in 2011.
Lets see if OWS can help 2012 be even better.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f6914eab8eab55000001fReginaldThu, 12 Jan 2012 18:13:24 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f6914eab8eab55000001f
The post office already loses my mail.
I don't need them losing my savings too.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f65a5ecad045708000021arnold layneThu, 12 Jan 2012 17:58:45 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f65a5ecad045708000021
Any nation that developes an entrenched upper class and has no social mobility will stagnate. The people at the top are not indiciate of the full spectrum of the population, hence represent a small subset of values and ideas. Not great for economic prosperity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f6406eab8ea0348000034arnold layneThu, 12 Jan 2012 17:51:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f6406eab8ea0348000034
Really, 'cause i see a democratic party where the representatives are of a leadership class: wealthy, able to send their children to ivy-league schools. That is, utterly removed from the real concerns that dominate normal lives. They may be concerned for the less fortunate, but the key voices of that party are not without means. They don't require reform to ensure that they and their children continue to do well. They are not as highly invested in equality and fairness and people who need it to even make a life. Whatever happened to government 'by the people for the people'?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f638eeab8ea474a00003eStorm BThu, 12 Jan 2012 17:49:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f638eeab8ea474a00003e
1)Your English is worse than an illegal immigrant's, so I can't be 100% sure that there is no valid point here. That being said, pretty much any coherent idea I can kind of see here is erroneous.
2) I agree totally, those absurd unions with their crazy wage shenanigans are wholly responsible for the terrible financial times that large corporations are enduring today. Every statistic out there shows that wage-earners are living the high-life these days while our corporations are dying in the streets.
3) The bank bail-out was clearly a partisan issue, pushed solely and entirely by the democrats. Anytime I say federal reserve I sound smart, even if other words in my "sentence" aren't even real.
Seems to me, that even though I am an independent, the people claiming to have solutions (you) only succeed in making me look like a buffoon should I actually want to take your side in a rational discussion with a rational discussion. For instance, I understand that the purpose of a labor union doesn't translate into the public sector. But I cant explain that to anyone because the hordes of morons such as yourself flooding the internet with horrendously stupid comments have put me in a situation where I can't agree with you without people assuming I am partially brain deadhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f60c1ecad04e27a000033arnold layneThu, 12 Jan 2012 17:37:53 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f60c1ecad04e27a000033
america seems to have a more rigid stratification than most western nations and various elitism that would not be tolerated elsewhere (general derision to the poor). On some level, the situation is deeply entrenched and enforced at the level of meaning. The solution is probably social mobility. If the lower income groups were able to get the same access to higher education, then the extremely wealthy would probably less firmly entrenched. The people who were in a position to exert influence would be from more diverse backgrounds and you would likely find a greater empathy towards the poor in business circles. If attitudes in business only reflect those people fortunate enough to get into harvard or yale (etc), then attitudes will continue to most reflect the moneyed, who have never had to deal with poverty in real terms and the failures of social mobility.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f5ab5ecad04bf6e000033tjnThu, 12 Jan 2012 17:12:05 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f5ab5ecad04bf6e000033
Rich tend to be smart people, 20 million Americans never graduated from HS. Guess who are the poor who complain about the rich and want handouts.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f574becad04d96e00001dMike 277Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:57:31 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f574becad04d96e00001d
"Mortgage lenders are being scrutinized at every level for lending practices that clearly discriminated against minority and low-income homeowners.
A study released late last year showed minority borrowers were disproportionately stuck with risky subprime loans that came back years later to drag them into foreclosure."
What kind of nonsense is this? Subprime loans were risky because the lendee was not qualified for a typical loan and was a higher risk to default. I missed the news stories of lenders dragging people at gunpoint into their offices and making them take out a mortgage. Discrimination is not, per se, illegal. Discrimination based on sex, race, religion, etc is illegal. Lending discrimination based on ability to repay is not illegal. If it were, then everyone could get a loan for 10 million dollars regardless of their ability to repay.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f56856bb3f7641100000bGame OverThu, 12 Jan 2012 16:54:13 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f56856bb3f7641100000b
My Demands? Simple.
1) Revolution
2) Off With Their Headshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f5661eab8eaf82d00004eAlpha directedThu, 12 Jan 2012 16:53:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f5661eab8eaf82d00004e
Yea and it was business as usual from day one of the Obama administration...
Remember that?
THEY are all the same. Demipublicans and Repubocrats are all the same. Meanwhile, THEY get guys like you all worked up and starting slappy fights all over the place trying to tell us one is better than the other. Grow up.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f55406bb3f7ea02000036Alpha directedThu, 12 Jan 2012 16:48:48 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f55406bb3f7ea02000036
Geezus, was that ever dumb...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f4eda69bedd2c5000001bWell, let's see....Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:21:30 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f4eda69bedd2c5000001b
1) the growth in the number of poor has largely been welfare and illegal immigrants, maybe we shouldn't be funding their fucking spree?
2) thanks to the absurd union demands on wages and benefits which have bankrupted several large and numerous smaller U.S. companies combined with American laziness and low productivity, jobs go overseas
3) the federal reserve prints money to bailout banks they should have not and a government spending an insustainable amount resulting in more l this printed cash flowing to the top
Seem pretty much like the party claiming to be the solution (Democrats) actually is the problem to me.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f4dba6bb3f7a47700006cJail and Parent's BasementsThu, 12 Jan 2012 16:16:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f4dba6bb3f7a47700006c
That is what happened to them.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f4759ecad04864e00003dGary AndersonThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:49:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f4759ecad04864e00003d
Actually Dwight, you are correct here. Banks should be bypassed as much as is possible. I would like the post office to be a bank. Then maybe the loans would go to main street. But they would have to be sound loans and not easy money Wall Street loans.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f466becad048b4e00002dimdwightgoodenThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:45:31 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f466becad048b4e00002d
here's what you should do- get out of the system as much as you can... starve the tax beast... discover that you don't need the government to get things of value.. for example,instead of putting in extra hours at the office for which you pay will be subject to the W-2 tax system, go home and start a garden... instead of the taxable income you'll produce food which will be untaxable, plus you'll learn valuable skills.... do this in a few different facets of your life and combine that with other people doing the same and you'll see this government leviathan start to wither and die...vote against all of this by dropping out as much as possiblehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f45b2eab8eac513000010JRWThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:42:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f45b2eab8eac513000010
Of course these statistics will be up when our President (the uniter - haha) has been nothing but stoking class warfare since he took office.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f456f69beddea34000043imdwightgoodenThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:41:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f456f69beddea34000043
are you implying that banks are needed for these companies to be started? because that couldn't be further from the trutth
silicon valley does a fine job of allocating capital to new and cutting edge companies and they do it by taking an equity stake rather than by lending as a bank would... not surprisingly, it works wellhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f413decad049b4a000008You are in Denial MandiThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:23:25 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f413decad049b4a000008
I lose more respect for this site every day
"A study released late last year showed minority borrowers were disproportionately stuck with risky subprime loans that came back years later to drag them into foreclosure.
The same report found low-income homeowners were hardest hit by foreclosures, with 7.3 percent having lost their homes to foreclosure since the 2008 housing crisis"
Shocker, could it be that these Mortgagees should never have been granted a mortgage in the first place? Could it be that starting with Jimmy Carter there was a major governmental push to make more minorities hone owners, regardless of their income and credit worthiness? It's cause and effect and somehow you have turned this in to a witch hunt of the rich.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f40836bb3f77e67000015HacksawThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:20:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f40836bb3f77e67000015
So true, the poll shows that independent conservatives are waking up to the fact that they have been bamboozled by the corporatist. I happen to be one of them. The question now is, what do we do about it? This upcoming election should be interesting. The angry white man vote may not come through for the corporatist.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3df36bb3f7545d000041HacksawThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:09:23 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3df36bb3f7545d000041
No, it reminds me of the atmosphere before Adolf took over Germany. When the corporatist bank rolled him because they thought they could control him and there would be a profit in it for them. The end result being state sanctioned theft, murder, and eventually genocide. Sounds a little familiar doesn't it?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3c316bb3f75061000018growupThu, 12 Jan 2012 15:01:53 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3c316bb3f75061000018
1. I'm against the Fed. Fixing interest rates and devaluing the dollar is not the free market.
2. Bankers are not the villain. They didn't set interest rates, they didn't create Fannie and Freddie. They didn't create rent controls, the FHA, HUD, and so called "fair lending" regulations. You're aiming your gun at the wrong people. Limit government and the favors that go along with it and the market will work.
3. Without credit and financing, capitalism dies and thus our way of life dies.
4. You have no idea what you're ranting about. I appreciate the energy though.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f37d1ecad04753a00000btypical fleabaggerThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:43:13 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f37d1ecad04753a00000b
the rich don't pay enuf taxes.
i need more free stuffhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f36fe69bedddd1400004fGOP ApocalypseThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:39:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f36fe69bedddd1400004f
What the poll really says is that the GOP's days are numbered and ended.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f36ce69bedd2f1c000017Whut?Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:38:54 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f36ce69bedd2f1c000017
I think a 70s rock group said it best -- Eat the Rich. In Illinois or Indiana, it is now okay to scrape them up as roadkill in order to eat them, so if you accidentally run over one of them there, .....bon apetit.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3630ecad045e32000050whut?Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:36:16 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3630ecad045e32000050
But, how did the industrialists get the money to start companies to begin with?
I like the "industrialists" much better than the leeches, but I think we are letting the industrialists off a little too easy -- I still don't understand how they were able to start their first company.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f352e69beddda1900001awhut?Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:31:58 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f352e69beddda1900001a
".....the rich who started companies...." wait, how did they have the money to start a company to begin with?
Agree with pretty much everything you're saying.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f350decad047634000023Lloyd BlankfeinThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:31:25 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f350decad047634000023
I'll know the peasants are pissed when they take me hostage. Until then, I'll continue to do God's work and rob those debt-serfs blind.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f34a96bb3f73e5300001ajp32Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:29:45 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f34a96bb3f73e5300001a
YES, there is an enormous distinction between the activities of creating products, companies and industries out of nothing, and merely "financially engineering" existing companies to extract wealth (often to stick someone else with the debt), and high frequency trading, both of which seem to be the prime activity on Wall Street these days.
There needs to be a similar difference in how the capital is treated for these vastly different activities. Capital for creating (products, jobs, companies) should be almost untaxed, whereas capital for rearranging deck chairs or trading should be taxed as regular income.
We also need to think of these activities differently as a society. If we don't make this distinction, then the creative capitalists will be tarred with the same brush as the thieving capitalists.
It is already happening in this poll and article, where it is just "the rich" vs..... The question needs to be "Which rich people...?"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f33d469bedd0f17000019jamesxxxxxThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:26:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f33d469bedd0f17000019
IT WAS BUSH BAILED OUT THE BANKS TO THE TUNE OF TRILLIONS.
Short memory?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3350eab8ea146b000040getta lifeThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:24:00 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f3350eab8ea146b000040
Hey Mandi, wouldn't it be nice if someone actually pointed out how the rich have changed over the years, from industrialists who made stuff to leeches who suck blood? Would Henry Ford or Andrew Carnegie even let John Paulsen shine their shoes? Henry Firestone actually made something of value and employed people. Goldman makes shit and destroys jobs. That why the rich and the rest are headed for a showdown, the rest are sick of it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f32b869beddad14000020jamesxxxxThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:21:28 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f32b869beddad14000020
The banksters who are gambling with your money and paying less tax than you on their winnings are not 'capitalists', so your comparison to Russia is false.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f314169beddac14000014Jim in AlabamaThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:15:13 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f314169beddac14000014
You have to realize that the wealth gap has more to do with housing values that anything else. Most middle class have most of their net worth in their home so when home prices went down so did a large portion of net worth. Wealthier people have more cash flow and varied investments plus can afford to hire good people to manage those investments.
Of course the loos of good jobs and income attributes as well but the game has not changed it is just that is shows up more now that it did before the crisis.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f30eaecad046b28000025amber234Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:13:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f30eaecad046b28000025
This is all being taken care. Taxes are being hiked right now. Ben Bernanke has created a new tax, the inflation tax. Confiscate the assets of savers, and wage earners whose wages have stagnated, then redistribute the proceeds to Wall Street and the C suites of the S&P 500. That should help in the struggle between rich and poor, eh?
"Of course, one can never get something for nothing; from a public finance perspective, increased monetization of government debt simply amounts to replacing other forms of taxes with an inflation tax.”
Ben Bernanke 2003
“…higher stock prices will boost consumer wealth“
Ben S. Bernanke, Washington Post, November 4, 2010http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f30be6bb3f71f4d00000dJake-ElwoodThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:13:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f30be6bb3f71f4d00000d
According to Obama doctrine, people no longer have the constitunal right to fail.
The Nanny state must save them at any cost.
But he has ran out of the OPM he needs to continue.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2fae6bb3f71349000017Jack BurtonThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:08:30 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2fae6bb3f71349000017
I think there is a big distinction between the rich who started companies, employed people and boosted the local economies and the rip off artists on Wall-Street and the Big Banks.
Some people have caught on to the rigged crap on Wall-Street that really took off once most workers were moved into the 401K system in which their retirement money landed on the street and was there to be skimmed, farmed and manipulated.
Sure, there is tension, but not against real job creators. By the way Rommney is NO job creator, he is a useless prick, republicans who vote for this ass clown are fools, any average working person who casts a vote for this crook is a really big fool!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2eefeab8eafc68000020growupThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:05:19 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2eefeab8eafc68000020
Wait....I don't understand. Were minorities and "low income" people discriminated against and withheld mortgages or were they exploited by greedy, evil, bankers looking to make a quick buck? Can't be both can it? And keep in mind that when you refer to "wealthy" people and how they have gotten wealthier, consider that we still have income mobility in this country. Those surveys are misleading because it assumes that the wealthy are a fixed class. People flow in and out of these brackets constantly. If you were to take my income since I graduated college, i would have been considered poor for 2 years, then middle class for 4 years, then poor again for 2 years, then rich for 3 years, then poor for 3 more. I'm currently starting a business and have no income. Am I poor? Do you get the fallacies built into these statistics that arensupposed to lead you to believe that the game is somehow fixed or that rich people never worked and sacrificed to achieve success? Are people really that misguided to think that their lives are simply results of their personal choices????http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2e43ecad044426000031Jake-ElwoodThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:02:27 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2e43ecad044426000031
Does this remind you of the atmosphere right before the communist took over Mother Russia?
How many were killed in the gulags because they did not goose-step to the party line?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2e166bb3f72e47000028GregThu, 12 Jan 2012 14:01:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f0f2e166bb3f72e47000028
Who? Oh you mean that protest group from back in 2011? Whatever happened to them.